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Logrolling - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Logrolling : (noun)
1: act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading
of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage
of certain projects
2: rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport)
[syn: birling]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Logrolling : \Log"roll`ing\, n.
1. (Logging) The act or process of rolling logs from the
place where they were felled to the stream which floats
them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor
neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other
in turn. --Longfellow. [U.S.]
2. Hence: A combining to assist another in consideration of
receiving assistance in return; -- sometimes used of a
disreputable mode of accomplishing political schemes or
ends. [Cant, U.S.]
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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